Flashing electric tailights!

Many of the Amish buggies here in WI have them.

What, the gas cans?

I'm not seeing a horse.

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Originally posted by Sigmund:
I'm not seeing a horse.

look at the sign you can see his head and ears, pictures one and two you can see the feet/hoofs

The Amish in PA have been using battery powered lights for over a decade due to so many accidents of Amish buggies being struck by motorists.

There was a horse. I assume the gas cans have diesel. Some Amish use stationary diesel motors to run an overhead belt system for their woodworking shops. My understanding was hand crank started stationary diesels are ok because they didn’t use electricity.

I thought electricity was strictly verboten.

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Originally posted by trapper189:

Flashing electric tailights!

Very common in south central PA.

electricity is fine as long as not from the grid iirc.

Interesting. My information is 30 years old from a sample of one, so I guess it shouldn’t shock me. An Amish gentleman sat next to me on a Greyhound bus from Montgomery, AL to Chicago, IL and we had a a good conversation.

I see lights for safety on Amish buggies all the time here in SW Wisconsin. What I *haven't* seen is a wagon with rubber tires, which this one appears to have.

Common in Ohio, too. Some have headlights and turn signals as well.
More common of late to see a small or mid size tractor pulling a trailer with several members of the family in lawn chairs on the trailer...
Rubber tires are only common on small pony carts and bicycles here.

Very common here in Northeast Indiana.
Go north about 50 miles they have covered Buggies.
i have also noticed some small solar panels on sheds At Amish houses lately

It totally depends on the local leadership. A lot of the Amish near my parents in Ohio won't light their buggies with anything other than a lantern, and won't even put those reflective triangles on them. In contrast, around here some of them drive tractors, have solar panels on their houses, and light up their buggies like Christmas trees at night (which is a good thing as it greatly reduces accidents).

Saw this yesterday, and now there is an Amish thread to share it in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzP68qlDsOM

In central Ohio, Amish have solar power charging stations, cell phones, and most buggies I have seen have good electrical lights.

I grew up there but only visit occasionally now.

Used to be (in the 80s) buggies in my area had to have the slow moving vehicle signs and battery powered lights. However, they didn't have charging stations then. Driving on a dark unlit country road, and some Amish would not turn on their lights until I was right up on them. Almoat hit some on several occasions.